四し六ろく駢べん儷れい体たい

noun

parallel prose style using four and six-character phrases

A highly ornate classical Chinese prose style characterized by strict parallelism and rhythmic antitheses, often using phrases of four and six characters. A technical term in Chinese and Japanese literary studies.

• 四し六ろく駢儷べんれい体たいは六りく朝ちょう時じ代だいに流りゅう行こうした文ぶん体たいである。

  The four-six parallel prose style was a literary form popular during the Six Dynasties period.